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Happy New Year guys! With a New Year in place, I wish to talk about some healthy changes I plan to adhere to for the foreseeable future. Changes I have made for myself to live better and healthier. Or at least here’s hoping.

The two resolutions that I hold for this year are, to regain a healthy relationship with food and to begin to read more books.

I’ve previously posted about the struggle I have with my weight and the fight to maintain a slim frame.

For years now I have been reluctant to eat certain foods and intake over 1200 calories daily. I turn away any treats that I deem to be bad and have lost all enjoyment from food. Even dining out had become an issue with me and was mentally draining. I would look at menus and feel a great deal of anxiety building up if I couldn’t see pancakes available on the menu.

Hell, I once claimed to be gluten intolerant as an excuse to avoid carbohydrates and other danger foods. At 22 years of age and 39kgs, I knew the reason for my swollen and tired body was through effect of Ill eating and malnourishment. A gluten intolerance was a mere cover up to my poor choices.

As a resolution for 2018 and keen to gain a better outlook to my general health, I have been working to improve my relationship with food and change my diet significantly. Pancakes or porridge oats for each and every meal doesn’t quite cut it anymore, no matter how much fruit I throw into the mix, my diet requires more substance and less empty calories.

Especially now, as a Mother, I have a reputation to withstand and must be the influence that my Daughter needs. I want for her to see me eating well, to copy and adapt to a healthy lifestyle as she grows so she can become a strong, healthy and happy individual with a good relationship to food.

I realise just how important food is for survival and that I need to intake key foods to help my body thrive and nourish as it should. As I am breastfeeding at the moment, I am very cautious with what I eat and drink and always have my Daughter in mind when I eat at the moment. As she relies on me for her food and nourishment, I have to ensure I intake goods that will provide her with what she needs to grow.

I like to ensure I intake a full three meals a day and snack on healthy goods such as fruits and nuts. I am on the road to becoming a vegetarian with meat stripped from my diet and weekly shops made up of mostly fruit, grains and vegetables. I am hoping that with a good mindset and vision I can maintain these healthy behaviours and pass on good habits to my Daughter who will be beginning her weaning journey in mere weeks. Something which I am both excited and anxious of.

I also hope to become better with reading again, I aim to read as much as I can, covering a wide range of topics and varieties of genres.

As a one time book worm, I have fallen off the wagon and put reading aside. I got a little lost and side tracked with pregnancy and having a newborn, it left little time to sit down and treat myself to a cup of coffee and a reading session. However, as Eleanor grows and I take back control of my life, I have made it my mission to encourage reading once more.

I’m onto my second book of the year and hope there will be many more to come. I have a set list of books I wish to work my way through and I’m sure as the weeks pass my reading list will grow.

I think that reading is a great past time and a healthy one too. I wish to put more into reading and less time watching the television or scrolling the Internet. There is a lot to be learned from books and I am keen to get stuck into the world of fiction once more and lose myself in a good book.

Do you have any resolutions for the year 2018? Making any big lifestyle changes? Let me know.

As we reach the end of another year, I wave goodbye to what seems an era. I can’t help but to think that 2017 has brought so much good to my family and it has been a year of some very important firsts. First trip to the States, the first time I practiced yoga, first pregnancy, first baby. The list goes on.

I am not a “new year, new me” kinda gal, rather I am waving goodbye to 2017 with many fond memories and a heart full of love as I look forward to the pending year ahead and all that 2018 has to bring to the table.

I reflect on 2017 as one of the best years of my life and I feel that during the course of the year I really did discover myself more as a person, hold relationships close and love harder. 2017 was the year for me, there’s no hiding that fact.

I discovered I was pregnant on January second and ever since, the news just kept getting better. At first, the news was a little daunting and quite hard to take, especially as I didn’t plan to conceive at this time. It didn’t seem the right time but in hindsight it was the best time to begin a family and I wouldn’t have it any other way. They say what’s meant for you won’t pass you by, I’m beginning to believe that.

I passed my driving test and obtained a license, flew over the Grand Canyon on St. Valentines day, birthed my beautiful girl, Eleanor. I said yes to the one I love. The year 2017 not only brought a host of good memories and achievements but it brought my family and that is something I will be forever grateful of.

I end the year as a Mother and a Wife to be, a Daughter and a friend. As I step out of one year and into the next, I can only hope for a bigger and better year. I have goals I would like to reach and milestones to hit.

I hope to be a great Mother and a partner and I hope to find my feet on the career path. I wish to be happier and healthier than ever and for this to shine on through to my Daughter so that she can be taught good lessons for life and follow on from a good example.

I wish to become more confident both as a Mother and as a person. Since birthing my daughter I have found that I have become more anxious than ever before, this is something that I want to work on and improve. I’ll never be the most confident woman in the room but I want to be able to speak up and step out without fear. Not just for myself, but for my Daughter. I wish for her to grow to be independent and strong with the ability to stand her ground and hold her head with a great confidence.

I wish to become healthier and find happiness in food. I would like to experiment and try out different foods from porridge oats, fruit and chocolate. I want to restore my faith in the kitchen and get back to cooking healthy and nutritional meals to share with my family.

The shopping cart has been filled with goodies of all variety and I hope to continue to keep a healthy balance and a meal plan to regain strength I have lost from years of eating scarcely. I am ready to enjoy food and the benefits of food once again. Enough of skipping proper meals and cutting foods.

I would like to travel some places, first up, Cyprus come April – First family holiday as the three of us. I wish to read more books, a past time that I once loved yet has drifted from me with the recent course of events and a whectic schedule and I wish to plan a special wedding day. I’d love to say that I’d stop biting my nails but that has been a life long habit that I can’t seem to kick, no matter what the year has been!

I sit here and write this with my baby in my arms as we await Euan to arrive home from work. As a family we will be bringing in the New Year with a tin of fizzy juice (full fat, how dare we?!) and a midnight kiss goodnight.

No party animals over here, just two tired parents and a lively baby looking forward to the year ahead and all that it may bring.

Here is to 2017,the best year of my life to date and to 2018 – let’s try to do one up on this year. Onwards and upwards we go as we carry on our journey into the New Year as a family of three.

Let the wedding planning commence. I wish for you all a very happy New Year, let’s hope it’s good to you all and brings to you the joy that I have experienced from this year.